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i believe science and technology leads the way. it is a great gift given to us, the gift of reason and the gift of discovery. so let's all work together. and i want to thank you for what you've said. madam president, we are now moving towards a few minutes before we're going to recess for the luncheon hour. i want to just comment briefly that today is -- to say that for those of us of the roman catholic faith, this is indeed a great day. we now have a pope who has been formally invested as the leader of -- of our church. pope francis. and we know that there were many members of the senate that would have liked to have gone to that investiture but duty called and we're here bringing to close our debate on the continued funding resolution, to make sure we're funded through fiscal 2013 in an orderly, agreed-upon way, and move to our big budget debate. but pope francis is calling us today, as he has in other sermons, to think about the poor, the elderly, the children, and the vulnerable in our society as well as the very planet. so we
i believe science and technology leads the way. it is a great gift given to us, the gift of reason and the gift of discovery. so let's all work together. and i want to thank you for what you've said. madam president, we are now moving towards a few minutes before we're going to recess for the luncheon hour. i want to just comment briefly that today is -- to say that for those of us of the roman catholic faith, this is indeed a great day. we now have a pope who has been formally invested as the...
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he then went on to receive other academic degrees including a master of law in military science from the judge advocate general's school, and a master of strategic study degree from the united states army war college. he's had an extraordinary career within the judge advocate general's corp. as deployed in a variety of operation nailing and staff positions. some of them among the most important in our rented history as a country. these include his deployment to the first special forces operational detachment, the deployment to the joint special operations command, united states special operation command, and the united states central command. in 2001, and 2002, he was deployed in special legal adviser to the joint operation task force for enduring freedom in afghanistan. for a long time, he and i were both in virginia as legal educators. he served as a head of the judge advocate general center for a law school in charlottesville, and now he is taken the extraordinaryily position as judge advocacy general of united states. the position that carries with it the rank of lieutenant gener
he then went on to receive other academic degrees including a master of law in military science from the judge advocate general's school, and a master of strategic study degree from the united states army war college. he's had an extraordinary career within the judge advocate general's corp. as deployed in a variety of operation nailing and staff positions. some of them among the most important in our rented history as a country. these include his deployment to the first special forces...
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jim green, director of the planetary science division in nasa's science mission directorate. of we have former astronaut dr. ed lu, two shuttle flights and a six-day stay on the international space station. he's now the chairman and ceo of the b-612 foundation, and he's going to talk to us about his foundation's sentinel which is to track the near-earth objects. and then dr. richard -- mr. richard dalbello, vice president of governmental affairs for intelsat who's going to speak about the role of security implications from the space threats, and then dr. joan johnson frieze, professor of national security affairs at the u.s. naval war college. she's going to talk about the role of space in our daily lives and how the space threats can threaten our national security. we will put our formal statements for senator cruz and mine in the record. your written testimony will be inserted in the record, and if you would just give us a quick summary so we can get into the questions, please. and -- >> mr. chairman, i will confess given that topic today, i was kiss appointed that bruce wi
jim green, director of the planetary science division in nasa's science mission directorate. of we have former astronaut dr. ed lu, two shuttle flights and a six-day stay on the international space station. he's now the chairman and ceo of the b-612 foundation, and he's going to talk to us about his foundation's sentinel which is to track the near-earth objects. and then dr. richard -- mr. richard dalbello, vice president of governmental affairs for intelsat who's going to speak about the role...
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we're on the brink of incredible breakthroughs in neurological science that could help either find the cure for alzheimer's or do the cognitive stretchout. we've got to spend money to save money. let's put the money into research, let's deal with alzheimer's, parkinson's, lou gehrig's disease, the things that break the family budget, break the family's heart, and also contribute to our public debt. but we can get there if we make wise and prudent choices. most of the people in nursing homes are really primarily women over the age of 80. and what are we going to do? are we going to abandon them? so, mada mr. president, this but is unkind to women. but its also unkind -- and children -- in terms of the opportunity structure. the ryan budget caps and freezes pell grants at $5,645. it requires frame families thate less than $25,000 to qualify for a pell grant. that means that if you're -- many people who seek pell grants are single mothers, and there's recent data out that shows so many of our families now -- 63% -- are in single-parent house holes and it can be a single mother or single d
we're on the brink of incredible breakthroughs in neurological science that could help either find the cure for alzheimer's or do the cognitive stretchout. we've got to spend money to save money. let's put the money into research, let's deal with alzheimer's, parkinson's, lou gehrig's disease, the things that break the family budget, break the family's heart, and also contribute to our public debt. but we can get there if we make wise and prudent choices. most of the people in nursing homes are...
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we need that revenue for education, for infrastructure, for biomedical research, for science research. we need it to make sure that our young people today are able to compete in this global economy in the future. mr. president, compromise, common sense, and good-faith negotiations are what we need today. we do not need someone saying, no, we cannot raise revenues. all we got to do is cut spending. on our side, with the leadership of senator murray, we have said we'll cut spending, but we'll also raise revenues. we'll have a balanced approach fl so i irk m i urge my colleago vote "yes" on this budget resolution to say "no" to all of these amendments that would upset what i think is a very good, solid budget resolution put forward by senator murray and the committee. let's put dogma aside. let's act rational rationally ad reasonably and let come together for a balanced, responsible solution tower nation's budget problems -- to our nation's budget problems. i yield the floor. ms. ayotte: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from new hampshire. ms. ayotte: thank you, mr. pres
we need that revenue for education, for infrastructure, for biomedical research, for science research. we need it to make sure that our young people today are able to compete in this global economy in the future. mr. president, compromise, common sense, and good-faith negotiations are what we need today. we do not need someone saying, no, we cannot raise revenues. all we got to do is cut spending. on our side, with the leadership of senator murray, we have said we'll cut spending, but we'll...
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in any way help us perfect our ability to avoid -- [inaudible] >> i think, obviously, there's great science you can do. i think, likely, the deflection mission that we have to mount someday, and we will have to someday, we know that, someday, is likely to be done robotically just because the distances are quite large from the earth. but there is a connection between the two in that for the human mission to asteroids you still need to find them. we do not currently have a set of good targets to run human missions to asteroids. so the same data set which allows us to know if something's going to hit earth gives us targets for exploration. >> yeah. in fact, visiting an asteroid by astronauts, for instance, is another one of those steps this terms of understanding much more about their or characteristics. but the ability to do that is an enabling one. the it's one of those where you trek outside of low earth orbit, you have a destination, you then go through a variety of processes and procedures that you would have to perfect on even longer voyages if you would go to mars. so there are differen
in any way help us perfect our ability to avoid -- [inaudible] >> i think, obviously, there's great science you can do. i think, likely, the deflection mission that we have to mount someday, and we will have to someday, we know that, someday, is likely to be done robotically just because the distances are quite large from the earth. but there is a connection between the two in that for the human mission to asteroids you still need to find them. we do not currently have a set of good...
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sundry bureaucratic candles that are trapped in a world of light with all the breakthroughs of new science and technology. and it is virtually impossible to get people in washington, d.c. to actually learn how to think about a new world. and i commend all of you -- [applause] -- to go to gingrich productions.com. you'll see a newsletter entitled highness of the future versus prisoners of the past. it captures exactly where we are. we stand today on the edge of a great future, but washington is in both parties. now, i want to ask in part to help us find the pioneers of the future. when you see new ideas, new approaches, new developments, let us know at gingrich production. will try to develop a new university. courses can we love you to either take a course or offer a course or create a workshop. that starts with what reince priebus is doing it is deeper and longer and broader and includes public policy as well as techniques and technology. but we need your help. this is literally a 50 year struggle. october 2719 safety for ronald reagan, national television, you and i are told increasingly
sundry bureaucratic candles that are trapped in a world of light with all the breakthroughs of new science and technology. and it is virtually impossible to get people in washington, d.c. to actually learn how to think about a new world. and i commend all of you -- [applause] -- to go to gingrich productions.com. you'll see a newsletter entitled highness of the future versus prisoners of the past. it captures exactly where we are. we stand today on the edge of a great future, but washington is...